How to change the password for your IAM user

Question

Hi Team,

I have created one IAM user. I want to change the password of that user from CLI. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can change the password of the IAM user who is calling this operation. The AWS account root user password is not affected by this operation. 

$ aws iam change-password --generate-cli-skeleton > change-password.json